UAF Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
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Dan Mann
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Washington, '83, Ph.D.
Dan Mann trained at the University of Washington in anthropology, entomology, forestry, and soils. He studies climate change and its effects on physical systems like glaciers and streams and on biotic systems composed of vegetation and people. His Alaskan research has ranged from Glacier Bay to the Brooks Range. Current research projects include studies of environmental change at the end of the last ice age on the North Slope; human impacts on island ecosystems in the South Pacific; fire history in Interior Alaska; rock-dwelling microbes in Antarctica; glacial history around the Gunnison Basin, Colorado; human adaptations to global change in the Makalu region of Nepal; and fluvial responses to climate change during the Holocene on the Southern High Plains. He has worked as an environmental consultant, a mountain guide, and, briefly, milking cows. At UAF, Dan teaches biogeography and directs senior practicum courses. His interests in interdisciplinary teaching were developed during three years spent directing the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont.
Drought, vegetation change, and human history on Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island)
Office: 182A Arctic Health Research Building
Phone: 907-474-7752
Click on the links below for published research articles:
Holocene history of the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Northwestern Alaska
Relative importance of different secondary successional pathways in an Alaskan boreal forest
Quaternary glaciations of the Rongbuk Valley, Tibet
Biopedological origin of peatlands in South East Alaska
contact: d.mann@uaf.edu
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